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HUDSON, Wis. - After working with more than 400 writers during the past five years, award-winning author and editor Rob Bignell kept hearing the same questions:

"You mean I can't do that in a novel?" "Just how do I go about self-publishing this book anyway?" "How do I get people to buy my book?"

Now a new suite of three guidebooks - Rob Bignell's "7 Minutes a Day to Your Bestseller," "7 Minutes a Day to a Self-Published Book," and "7 Minutes a Day to Promote Your Book" - answers these and many other questions.

In these comprehensive yet practical and useful guidebooks, Bignell helps writers navigate one of the fastest growing realms of the book world: self-publishing. An incredible 1,185,445 books were self-published during 2011, and that number is expected to grow during the decade ahead.

"Big publishing houses just aren't printing many titles anymore," said Bignell, a former Deming resident who owns and runs a manuscript editing service. "The result is a lot of great books aren't going to see daylight unless authors take it upon themselves to print their own books.

"Self-publishing has allowed authors to do just that."

Books in the "7 Minutes a Day " series are available for purchase online at http://inventingreality.4t.com/7minutes_orderabook.html.